plotless
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Like “Birthday Offering,” this plotless ballet with six featured performers highlighted the company’s women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kinsky’s roaming Sebald-esque novels like “Grove” and “River” have made her a household name in plotless fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
When, in 1967, the curtain rose at New York City Ballet on his opulent triptych, known as the first full-length plotless ballet, it had no unifying title.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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